MPsych Advanced Psychology Stage 5 Induction 2018

Everything you need to know about Induction

Before you arrive

Please review the list of projects and research interests offered by staff on our online MSc Project Allocation system. You should have been sent (via email) details of this system, along with a personalised link to access details of these projects, during the summer. Project list

'In preparation for this session it would be extremely helpful if you could refresh your memory for the last piece of research you did (eg re-read your dissertation), or if you are new to psychology think about the range of research topics that interest you: what type of project would you like to develop this year?'

This session will include:

Supervisor/student relationship, expected contribution

Project Allocation System (PAS)/finding a supervisor

Login to PAS

Project brainstorming

15.00–16.00 University support services Venue Babbage Building room 406

Academic writing with Jo Allison

Wellbeing Centre

Careers service with Claire Guy

Robot club

Psysoc with Molly Timlett Chair Psysoc.

Thursday 20 September

Free day

Friday 21 September

9.30–10.00
Arrival with refreshments and University card collection. You must complete online enrolment and photo upload prior to collecting your University card, also remember to bring valid passport and/or driving licence. Cards are only issued to new students, so if you are a returning student please bring your existing student card with you.
Venue Smeaton Building room 100

10.00–12.00 Nuts and bolts Venue Smeaton 100

Using the DLE

Checking your timetable

Office 365

Accessing other University systems.

12.00–13.30
Postgraduate lunch, a networking lunch for all PG students and academic staff, meet postgraduate students undertaking other psychology programmes Venue Link Building room 301

13.30–16.00 Individual meetings with tutors

It is important that you enrol online attending induction. Please use the links below to enrol, if you have any problems enrolling please contact psychology@plymouth.ac.uk.

A postgrad welcome party will be arranged at the beginning of Semester 1, for psychology postgraduate and research students and teaching staff. You will be informed when and where it is to be held via email.

Visual perception: evolution, genes, and environments

What we see and perceive has been shaped by
our evolutionary history. This option explores how our vision has been determined by the interaction of genes with
environments. How did the complex eye
evolve? Why did vision evolve? Why are our eyes
shaped differently from insects? Why do we have eyes in the front of our heads,
but many animals have eyes at the side? Dinosaurs had better
colour vision than mammals – what happened? Why did our loss of
smell coincide with our gain in colour vision – was it fruit, sex, or social
life? Why is colour blindness common in men – does it have an advantage? Do blind people get jet-lag? Why, these days, do so many people
need to wear spectacles - nature or nurture, or both? To answer these
questions, we discuss visual pathways, visual perception, some basic
genetics, and evolution, and delve into the mysteries of developmental
plasticity.

Professor Chris Harris

MPsych Advanced Psychology specialist pathways

In your final year you will choose to focus on one of three specialist pathways; Behaviour Change, Cognitive and Brain Sciences or Foundations in Clinical Psychology

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